cosmopolite (kozmopolit)

and a. [= F. cosmopolite Sp. Pg. It. cosmopolita, I came tumbling into the world a pure cadet, a true cosmopolite ; not born to land, lease, house, or office. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 60. His air was that of a cosmopolite In the wide universe from sphere to sphere. Lowell, Oriental Apologue. 2. An animal or a plant existing in many or most parts of the world, or having a wide range of existence or migration. 1289 The wild-goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou. Thoreau, Walden, p. 342. II. a . Universal; world-wide; cosmopolitan. English is emphatically the language of commerce, of civilization, of social and religious freedom, of progre ive intelligence, and, therefore, beyond any tongue ever used by man, it is of right the cosmopolite speech. G. P. Marsh , Lects. on Eng. Lang., i. cosmopolitical (kozmo-po-lit'i-kal), a. [ political .] Universal; cosmopolitan. To finde himselfe Cosmopolites, a citizen and member of the whole and onely one mystic all citie vniuersall, and so consequently to meditate of the Cosmopolitic all gouernment thereof. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 6. Kant says somewhere that, as the records of human transactions accumulate, the memory of man will have room only for those of supreme cosmopolitical importance. Lowell, Harvard Oration, Nov. 8, 1886.